Landscape Winston Churchill valued at 150 thousand pounds

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Landscape Winston Churchill valued at 150 thousand pounds
Written by Winston Churchill in the 1930's landscape may be up for auction houses in Dickins Auctioneers estimate 100-150 thousand pounds (177-265 thousand dollars). Painting lain in an attic for thirty years, and for its identification required 10 months, reports the newspaper The Telegraph.

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The auction scheduled for September 20.
The painting shows a mansion Uindlshem Moore, in the county of Surrey (in 1947, lived in this house, newly-married Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip Mountbatten). In paintings there is no name, no signature, which, however, fairly typical of Churchill: he was not highly of her artistic abilities. The picture he presented to Lord Taylor, in the war years the Director of Internal Intelligence at the Ministry of Information. Lord Taylor peredaril it to his secretary, and she - her son. The latter is not fed to the landscape of Churchill no feelings, and kept him in the attic. The work was discovered after thirty years

Paintings and watercolors by Churchill are appreciated at auction: in recent years, some of his works sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.